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Surviving a Hostile City!

Author : Lorna Dare

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 119 pages

File Size : 29,88 MB

Release : 2011-01-11

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1450279961

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Your city is struck with a disaster: no food, no water, no police, no medical, and no power. Chaos is everywhere. Gangs are running in the streets; looters are going from building to building. Are you prepared? Will you survive or will you be a victim? This book will show you how to store food and supplies you will need to Survive in a Hostile City! Coming out soon is Surviving a Hostile City II. In that book we will teach you how to protect yourself, what you will need when it comes to weapons and how to use them. We will show you how, as an ordinary person, you can combat gangs, looters and mobs. Available at Amazon.com E-Book for Kindle available at www.iuniverse.com



Surviving Violence in a Hostile City

Author : Kelly Alwood

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 92 pages

File Size : 39,17 MB

Release : 2011-10-26

Category : Self-Help

ISBN : 9781462059874

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Your city is struck with a disaster. No food, no water, no police, no medical, no power. There is chaos everywhere. Gangs are running in the streets, looters are going from building to building. Are you prepared? Will you survive? Or will you be a victim? This book will teach you offensive, defensive tactics and urban warfare tactics for the ordinary person so you can be the predator - not the prey! In a Hostile City! Look for Surviving Starvation in a Hostile City Book III. This book will be dedicated to 72-hour kits and food and water storage. Available in paperback and E Book at: Iuniverse.com Amazom.com



Geographies of Gender-Based Violence

Author : Hannah Bows

Publisher : Policy Press

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 37,4 MB

Release : 2022-09-30

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1529214521

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What role does physical and virtual space play in gender-based violence (GBV)? Experts from the Global North and South use wide-ranging case studies - from public harassment in India and Kenya to harassment on Twitter - to examine how spaces can facilitate or prevent GBV and showcase strategies for prevention and intervention. Students and academics from a range of disciplines will discover how existing research connects with practice and policy developments, the current gaps in research and a future agenda for GBV studies.



The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism

Author : Edward W. Dunbar

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 889 pages

File Size : 19,6 MB

Release : 2016-11-21

Category : Law

ISBN :

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In this three-volume set, an international team of experts involved in the research, management, and mitigation of hate-motivated violence examines and explains hate crimes in the United States and around the globe, drawing comparisons between countries as well as between hate crimes overall and domestic terrorism. The Psychology of Hate Crimes as Domestic Terrorism: U.S. and Global Issues takes a hard look at hate crimes both domestically and internationally, enabling readers to see similarities and disparities as well as to make the connections between hate crimes and domestic terrorism. The entries in this three-volume set discuss subjects such as the psychology and motivation in hate crimes, the cultural norms that shape tolerance of outgroups or tolerance of hate, and the fact that hate crimes are a pervasive form of domestic terrorism, as well as myriad issues of proliferation, public policy, policing, law and punishment, and prevention. The set opens with an introduction that discusses hate crime research and examines issues of identification of the bias element of hate crimes via empirical and case vignettes. The subsequent chapters discuss subjects such as the socio-demographic profiles of hate crime offenders; hate crime legislation and policy in the United States; the effects of hate crime on their victims as well as society; the incidence of hate crime in specific regions, such as Europe, the Middle East, and South America; and programs and therapeutic interventions to heal victims. Readers will also learn how specific educational approaches in communities, schools, and universities can be implemented to help prevent future escalation of hate-motivated violence.



Invisible No More

Author : Andrea J. Ritchie

Publisher : Beacon Press

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 47,14 MB

Release : 2017-08-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0807088994

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“A passionate, incisive critique of the many ways in which women and girls of color are systematically erased or marginalized in discussions of police violence.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. By placing the individual stories of Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, Andrea Ritchie documents the evolution of movements centered around women’s experiences of policing. Featuring a powerful forward by activist Angela Davis, Invisible No More is an essential exposé on police violence against WOC that demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.



Handbook on Gender and Cities

Author : Linda Peake

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 507 pages

File Size : 18,78 MB

Release : 2024-10-03

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1786436132

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This Handbook acts as a state-of-the-art foundation for the field of gender and cities scholarship through in-depth assessments of the latest research within key areas of feminist urban academia. Multidisciplinary in its scope, editors Linda Peake, Anindita Datta and Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyan bring together over 60 feminist scholars to present contemporary research in this important field of study.



Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Author : Elijah Anderson

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 362 pages

File Size : 18,6 MB

Release : 2000-09-17

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0393070387

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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.



Remaking Cities

Author : Tony Fry

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 21,77 MB

Release : 2017-08-10

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1474224172

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Unprecedented challenges await the future of the world's cities. Accelerating population pressure, climate change, food insecurity, poverty and geopolitical instability – in the face of such problems our current attempts at producing a sustainable agenda for the world's cities appear fragmented and inadequate. Fresh thinking is needed. In Remaking Cities, renowned design theorist Tony Fry brings a conceptual design perspective to the challenge of urban sustainability and resilience. In a typically far-sighted and provocative work, Fry presents ideas and actions for 'metrofitting' – a new kind of practice in architecture and urban design. Metrofitting expands the technological concept of retrofit up to the city scale, placing social, cultural, political and ethical concerns at its heart. Metrofitting is not about visionary technology, it is about transforming existing cities by combining available resources with human creativity, prompted by new thinking about new and old urban problems. It requires overcoming outmoded Eurocentric assumptions of what constitutes a city, rethinking their forms and structures, and understanding their metabolic processes and social and economic functions. This book provides conceptually strong practical approaches that will ultimately change the whole way we view cities and the way the urban future is designed. Illustrated with international case studies of metrofitting in action, Remaking Cities will provoke and stimulate debate among architects, urban designers, and anyone concerned with the urban environment and social and cultural change.



Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City

Author : Sabrina Chase

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 227 pages

File Size : 27,24 MB

Release : 2011-01-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0813553482

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Surviving HIV/AIDS in the Inner City explores the survival strategies of poor, HIV-positive Puerto Rican women by asking four key questions: Given their limited resources, how did they manage an illness as serious as HIV/AIDS? Did they look for alternatives to conventional medical treatment? Did the challenges they faced deprive them of self-determination, or could they help themselves and each other? What can we learn from these resourceful women? Based on her work with minority women living in Newark, New Jersey, Sabrina Marie Chase illuminates the hidden traps and land mines burdening our current health care system as a whole. For the women she studied, alliances with doctors, nurses, and social workers could literally mean the difference between life and death. By applying the theories of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to the day-to-day experiences of HIV-positive Latinas, Chase explains why some struggled and even died while others flourished and thrived under difficult conditions. These gripping, true-life stories advocate for those living with chronic illness who depend on the health care "safety net." Through her exploration of life and death among Newark's resourceful women, Chase provides the groundwork for inciting positive change in the U.S. health care system.



A Technomoral Politics

Author : Aradhana Sharma

Publisher : U of Minnesota Press

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 44,33 MB

Release : 2024-11-12

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1452972346

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Examining anticorruption battles and transparency laws to ask: what makes for good governance, and can it limit liberal democratic politics as much as encourage it? Good governance is meant to empower citizens, increase democratic participation, and make states transparent and accountable, yet this liberal democratic imperative can also promote populist authoritarian rule. Bringing together discourses on ethical goodness with the technicalities of governance as expressed in laws and policies, Aradhana Sharma develops the concept of “technomoral politics” to navigate this fraught topic. With a focus on the work of activists, citizens, and state officials, she offers an ethnographic account of the contradictions and dangers of good-governance politics in twenty-first-century India. A Technomoral Politics follows the evolution of a group of activists in New Delhi led by Arvind Kejriwal from 2008 to 2014 as they morphed from a protransparency NGO to a mass movement against state corruption to a populist party that promised to change the political system through laws and policies. Sharma explores the technomoral framing of state opacity and corruption as well as the limits of the law in resolving these issues, probing such themes as the contradictory relationship between transparency and bureaucracy and the classed and gendered nature of democratic state institutions. By examining scalar dimensions of good-governance politics, from the hyperlocal work of activists to global trends, A Technomoral Politics illuminates the paradoxes, limits, and risks of a system that is meant to spread liberal democratic principles but that also ends up promoting antidemocratic, populist-authoritarian forms of rule. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.